Label Description: OCCD67 IRM – Triptych 3CD

Triptych brings together the celebrated post-industrial act IRM’s last conceptual studio recordings as one unity for the very first time. Being a duo, consisting of Martin Bladh and Erik Jarl, since the start in 1998, the EP Indications of Nigredo (2007), was the first record to introduce Mikael Oretoft as a third permanent member. With this recording and its follow-up, the band’s fourth full-length album ORDER⁴ (2010), IRM sought to push the envelope and move away from their early industrial/power-electronics beginnings by introducing new, radical track structures and a wide variety of instruments and sound sources. When the band’s swansong, the fifth full-length album and the third part of the trilogy, Closure…, was released in 2014, IRM felt that they had moved too far from their early roots and would never be able to evolve beyond the material without burying the moniker for good. The nameless voice which leads us through these three records is locked within a philosophical discourse, oscillating somewhere between the inevitability of Freud’s Death Drive and Bataille’s negative mysticism as Inner Experience. By inventing a corporeal language of self-negation, the protagonist is strongly determined to leave a terminal impression on the world by transgressing every possible and impossible frontier. By reaching for this black light, he seeks to get marked and immortalised in the same way as the biblical figure Onan, who Yahweh slew for his impure offence(sic). This is a work which doesn’t concern itself with catharsis, spiritual gold, or finding the Philosopher’s Stone. It remains firmly stuck in the mud, and it never had the intention of elevating itself above it.

Packaged in a limited gloss-laminated 6-Panel Digisleeve. The special edition is accompanied by an A5 30-page brochure and an A3 poster based on Karolina Urbaniak’s original artwork.